Workshops: Proposal for Planning and Implementing a Higher Education Bridge Certification Authority (HEBCA)

研讨会：规划和实施高等教育桥梁认证机构 (HEBCA) 的提案

• 批准号: 0308292
• 负责人: Mark Luker
• 金额: $ 18.94万
• 依托单位: Educause
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-02-01 至 2005-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0308292&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshops; Proposal; Planning; Implementing; Higher

The research and education community faces a pressing need for trusted electronic communications between institutions of higher education and the federal agencies. The only general solutions to this problem are based on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), a system that uses digital certificates and signatures to bring to network communications the levels of trust and security required by the applications. A major barrier to the implementation of PKI among institutions is the fact that versions of the technology implemented by different vendors or certified by different vendors or certified by different authorities may not interoperate, effectively limiting their use to single institutions.A widely-accepted solution to this problem has been designed and implemented in the Federal Bridge Certification Authority (FBCA), which provides the legal, policy and technical framework to translate levels of trust from one institution or agency to another. In 2001-2002, EDUCAUSE implemented a test version of the Higher Education Bridge Certification Authority (HEBCA), which extends this approach to the Higher Education Community. While the test version demonstrated the technical feasibility of the approach, it cannot be used for production because it lacks the corresponding legal, policy and financial framework.Assuming the success of the design efforts, EDUCAUSE intends to use the results of the workshops as a roadmap to implement a production HEBCA, cross certify it with the FBCA, and invite Certificate Authorities that serve higher education to join the HEBCA. This will provide a uniform foundation on which universities can initiate a wide range of trusted electronic communications with various federal agencies to better support research and education. The proposal will develop and conduct a series of expert workshops to plan and implement the steps required to establish and create the HEBCA, and to move it into production.

研究和教育社区面临着高等教育机构与联邦机构之间值得信赖的电子通信的迫切需求。 解决此问题的唯一一般解决方案是基于公共密钥基础架构（PKI），该系统使用数字证书和签名将应用程序所需的信任和安全级别带到网络通信。 在机构中实施PKI的主要障碍是一个事实，即由不同供应商实施的技术版本或由不同供应商认证或经过不同机构认证的技术可能不会互操作，从而有效地将其用于单个机构限制为单一机构。广泛接受的解决方案在该问题上已在联邦桥梁机构中设计和实施，以使其在联邦桥梁机构（FBCA）中设计和技术，该机构（FBCA）（FBCA），FBCA，FBCA，FBCA），FBCA（FBCA），该问题，） 其他。 在2001 - 2002年，Educause实施了高等教育桥认证局（HEBCA）的测试版，该局将这种方法扩展到了高等教育社区。 尽管测试版本证明了该方法的技术可行性，但它不能用于生产，因为它缺乏相应的法律，政策和财务框架。考虑设计工作的成功，教育打算将研讨会的结果用作实施生产HEBCA的路线图，并与FBCA进行交叉认证，并与更高的教育访问更高的教育，以加入Hebca。 这将为大学提供与各种联邦机构的广泛信任的电子通信以更好地支持研究和教育的统一基础。 该提案将开发和举办一系列专家研讨会，以计划和实施建立和创建希伯.并将其转移到生产中所需的步骤。